History NightmareFuel / Opera

* Alban Berg's ''[[Theatre/{{Lulu}} Lulu]]'', like its source material by [[FrankWedekind Frank Wedekind]], is a deeply disturbing tale revolving around Lulu (who is only about ''[[FilleFatale 15 years of age]]'' at the beginning of the show), a seductive but [[MysteriousWoman mysterious former street urchin]] who follows a downward spiral from a well-kept mistress in Vienna to a street prostitute in London, while being both a [[HumanTrafficking victim]] and a [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior purveyor of destruction]]. Her first husband, the [[SugarDaddy aging Dr. Goll]], is so shocked when he catches her in a compromising setting with the artist painting her portrait that he dies of a heart attack; unmoved, she quickly marries the artist. [[AristocratsAreEvil Dr. Schön]], who apparently [[DirtyOldMan "rescued" her from the gutter]] when she was ''[[WouldHurtAChild about 12 years old while conducting an affair with her ever since]]'', after she reacts badly to his announcement that he is engaged and must dissociate from her, spills [[MysteriousWaif her backstory]] to the artist, along with her relationship with the equally mysterious beggar Schigolch, who is implied to be [[AbusiveParents her father]] and [[ParentalIncest her first client]]. Lulu herself often acts toward men in [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior inappropriately seductive ways]] that imply a history of sexual abuse and a [[LackOfEmpathy casual disregard for the distress of others]]. She has gone by [[IHaveManyNames many aliases]] and "Lulu", for all the audience knows, is not even her real name (when Schigolch first addresses her as "Lulu", she admits that she [[DarkAndTroubledPast hasn't been called that name in a long time]]). The artist is so shaken by this revelation, about how little that he actually knows about Lulu, [[DrivenToSuicide that he commits suicide]]. Lulu then compels Dr. Schön to marry her, but things begin to unravel from there. Lulu has [[SoBeautifulItsACurse many admirers who want to bed her]], [[IncestIsRelative including Dr. Schön's son Alwa, who was raised as her brother]], but [[LustObject it's never known what Lulu herself wants]]. It ends with Lulu reduced to [[DisposableSexWorker poverty in London]] and killed by [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Jack the Ripper]] ([[IronicEcho who is played by the same actor as Dr. Schön]]), along with one of her admirers, Countess Geschwitz, who is the [[IncompatibleOrientation only one who actually seems to care about Lulu herself]]. The whole drama is a scathing satire about the [[HumansAreBastards moral hypocrisy]] of high society and about how the men who want Lulu, secure in their place in patriarchy, see in her what they want to see while her own needs are never made clear.

* Alban Berg's ''[[Theatre/{{Lulu}} Lulu]]'', like its source material by [[FrankWedekind Frank Wedekind]], is a deeply disturbing tale revolving around Lulu (who is only about ''[[FilleFatale 15 years of age]]'' at the beginning of the show), a seductive but [[MysteriousWoman mysterious former street urchin]] who follows a downward spiral from a well-kept mistress in Vienna to a street prostitute in London, while being both a [[HumanTrafficking victim]] and a [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior purveyor of destruction]]. Her first husband, the [[SugarDaddy aging Dr. Goll]], is so shocked when he catches her in a compromising setting with the artist painting her portrait that he dies of a heart attack; unmoved, she quickly marries the artist. [[AristocratsAreEvil Dr. Schön]], who apparently [[DirtyOldMan "rescued" her from the gutter]] when she was ''[[WouldHurtAChild about 12 years old while conducting an affair with her ever since]]'', after she reacts badly to his announcement that he is engaged and must dissociate from her, spills [[MysteriousWaif her backstory]] to the artist, along with her relationship with the equally mysterious beggar Schigolch, who is implied to be [[AbusiveParents her father]] and [[ParentalIncest her first client]]. Lulu herself often acts toward suitors in [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior inappropriately seductive ways]] that imply a history of sexual abuse. She has gone by [[IHaveManyNames many aliases]] and "Lulu", for all the audience knows, is not even her real name (when Schigolch first addresses her as "Lulu", she admits that she [[DarkAndTroubledPast hasn't been called that name in a long time]]). The artist is so shaken by this revelation, about how little that he actually knows about Lulu, [[DrivenToSuicide that he commits suicide]]. Lulu then compels Dr. Schön to marry her, but things begin to unravel from there. Lulu has [[SoBeautifulItsACurse many admirers who want to bed her]], [[IncestIsRelative including Dr. Schön's son Alwa]], but [[LustObject it's never known what Lulu herself wants]]. It ends with Lulu reduced to [[DisposableSexWorker poverty in London]] and killed by [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Jack the Ripper]] ([[IronicEcho who is played by the same actor as Dr. Schön]]), along with one of her admirers, Countess Geschwitz, who is the [[IncompatibleOrientation only one who actually seems to care about Lulu herself]]. The whole drama is a scathing satire about the [[HumansAreBastards moral hypocrisy]] of high society and about how the men who want Lulu, secure in their place in patriarchy, see in her what they want to see while her own needs are never made clear.

* Alban Berg's ''[[Theatre/{{Lulu}} Lulu]]'', like its source material by [[FrankWedekind Frank Wedekind]], is a deeply disturbing tale revolving around Lulu (who is only about ''[[FilleFatale 15 years of age]]'' at the beginning of the show), a seductive but [[MysteriousWoman mysterious former street urchin]] who follows a downward spiral from a well-kept mistress in Vienna to a street prostitute in London, while being both a [[HumanTrafficking victim]] and a [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior purveyor of destruction]]. Her first husband, the [[SugarDaddy aging Dr. Goll]], is so shocked when he catches her in a compromising setting with the artist painting her portrait that he dies of a heart attack; unmoved, she quickly marries the artist. [[AristocratsAreEvil Dr. Schön]], who apparently [[DirtyOldMan "rescued" her from the gutter]] when she was ''[[WouldHurtAChild 12 years old while conducting an affair with her ever since]]'', after she reacts badly to his announcement that he is engaged and must dissociate from her, spills [[MysteriousWaif her backstory]] to the artist, along with her relationship with the equally mysterious beggar Schigolch, who is implied to be [[AbusiveParents her father]] and [[ParentalIncest her first client]]. Lulu has gone by [[IHaveManyNames many aliases]] and "Lulu", for all the audience knows, is not even her real name (when Schigolch first addresses her as "Lulu", she admits that she [[DarkAndTroubledPast hasn't been called that name in a long time]]). The artist is so shaken by the revelation that he commits suicide. Lulu then compels Dr. Schön to marry her, but things begin to unravel from there. Lulu has [[SoBeautifulItsACurse many admirers who want to bed her]], [[IncestIsRelative including Dr. Schön's son Alwa]], but [[LustObject it's never known what Lulu herself wants]]. It ends with Lulu reduced to [[DisposableSexWorker poverty in London]] and killed by [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Jack the Ripper]] ([[IronicEcho who is played by the same actor as Dr. Schön]]), along with one of her admirers, Countess Geschwitz, who is the [[IncompatibleOrientation only one who actually seems to care about Lulu herself]]. The whole drama is a scathing satire about the [[HumansAreBastards moral hypocrisy]] of high society and about how the men who want Lulu, secure in their place in patriarchy, see in her what they want to see while her own needs are never made clear.

* Alban Berg's ''[[Theatre/{{Lulu}} Lulu]]'', like its source material by [[FrankWedekind Frank Wedekind]], is a deeply disturbing tale revolving around Lulu (who is only about ''[[FilleFatale 15 years of age]]'' at the beginning of the show), a seductive but [[MysteriousWoman mysterious former street urchin]] who follows a downward spiral from a well-kept mistress in Vienna to a street prostitute in London, while being both a [[HumanTrafficking victim]] and a [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior purveyor of destruction]]. Her first husband, the [[SugarDaddy aging Dr. Goll]], is so shocked when he catches her in a compromising setting with the artist painting her portrait that he dies of a heart attack; unmoved, she quickly marries the artist. [[AristocratsAreEvil Dr. Schön]], who apparently [[DirtyOldMan "rescued" her from the gutter]] when she was [[WouldHurtAChild 12 years old while conducting an affair with her ever since]], after she reacts badly to his announcement that he is engaged and must dissociate from her, spills [[MysteriousWaif her backstory]] to the artist, along with her relationship with the equally mysterious beggar Schigolch, who is implied to be [[AbusiveParents her father]] and [[ParentalIncest her first client]]. Lulu has gone by [[IHaveManyNames many aliases]] and "Lulu", for all the audience knows, is not even her real name (when Schigolch first addresses her as "Lulu", she admits that she [[DarkAndTroubledPast hasn't been called that name in a long time]]). The artist is so shaken by the revelation that he commits suicide. Lulu then compels Dr. Schön to marry her, but things begin to unravel from there. Lulu has [[SoBeautifulIrsACurse many admirers who want to bed her]], [[IncestIsRelative including Dr. Schön's son Alwa]], but [[LustObject it's never known what Lulu herself wants]]. It ends with Lulu reduced to [[DisposableSexWorker poverty in London]] and killed by [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Jack the Ripper]] ([[IronicEcho who is played by the same actor as Dr. Schön]]), along with one of her admirers, Countess Geschwitz, who is the [[IncompatibleOrientation only one who actually seems to care about Lulu herself]]. The whole drama is a scathing satire about the [[HumansAreBastards moral hypocrisy]] of high society and about how the men who want Lulu, secure in their place in patriarchy, see in her what they want to see while her own needs are never made clear.

* Alban Berg's ''[[Theatre/{{Lulu}} Lulu]]'', like its source material by [[FrankWedekind Frank Wedekind]], is a deeply disturbing tale revolving around Lulu (who is only about ''[[FilleFatale 15 years of age]]'' at the beginning of the show), a seductive but [[MysteriousWoman mysterious former street urchin]] who follows a downward spiral from a well-kept mistress in Vienna to a street prostitute in London, while being both a [[SoBeautifulItsACurse victim]] and a [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior purveyor of destruction]]. Her first husband, the [[SugarDaddy aging Dr. Goll]], is so shocked when he catches her in a compromising setting with the artist painting her portrait that he dies of a heart attack; unmoved, she quickly marries the artist. [[AristocratsAreEvil Dr. Schön]], who apparently [[DirtyOldMan "rescued" her from the gutter]] when she was [[WouldHurtAChild 12 years old while conducting an affair with her ever since]], after she reacts badly to his announcement that he is engaged and must dissociate from her, spills [[MysteriousWaif her backstory]] to the artist, along with her relationship with the equally mysterious beggar Schigolch, who is implied to be [[AbusiveParents her father]] and [[ParentalIncest her first client]]. Lulu has gone by [[IHaveManyNames many aliases]] and "Lulu", for all the audience knows, is not even her real name (when Schigolch first addresses her as "Lulu", she admits that she [[DarkAndTroubledPast hasn't been called that name in a long time]]). The artist is so shaken by the revelation that he commits suicide. Lulu then compels Dr. Schön to marry her, but things begin to unravel from there. Lulu has many admirers who want to bed her, [[IncestIsRelative including Dr. Schön's son Alwa]], but [[LustObject it's never known what Lulu herself wants]]. It ends with Lulu reduced to [[DisposableSexWorker poverty in London]] and killed by [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Jack the Ripper]] ([[IronicEcho who is played by the same actor as Dr. Schön]]), along with one of her admirers, Countess Geschwitz, who is the [[IncompatibleOrientation only one who actually seems to care about Lulu herself]]. The whole drama is a scathing satire about the [[HumansAreBastards moral hypocrisy]] of high society and about how the men who want Lulu, secure in their place in patriarchy, see in her what they want to see while her own needs are never made clear.

* Alban Berg's ''[[Theatre/{{Lulu}} Lulu]]'', like its source material by [[FrankWedekind Frank Wedekind]], is a deeply disturbing tale revolving around Lulu (who is only about ''[[FilleFatale 15 years of age]]'' at the beginning of the show), a seductive but [[MysteriousWoman mysterious former street urchin]] who follows a downward spiral from a well-kept mistress in Vienna to a street prostitute in London, while being both a [[SoBeautifulItsACurse victim]] and a [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior purveyor of destruction]]. Her first husband, the [[SugarDaddy aging Dr. Goll]], is so shocked when he catches her in a compromising setting with the artist painting her portrait that he dies of a heart attack; unmoved, she quickly marries the artist. [[AristocratsAreEvil Dr. Schön]], who apparently [[DirtyOldMan "rescued" her from the gutter]] when she was [[WouldHurtAChild ‘’12 years old’’ while conducting an affair with her ever since]], after she reacts badly to his announcement that he is engaged and must dissociate from her, spills [[MysteriousWaif her backstory]] to the artist, along with her relationship with the equally mysterious beggar Schigolch, who is implied to be [[AbusiveParents her father]] and [[ParentalIncest her first client]]. Lulu has gone by [[IHaveManyNames many aliases]] and "Lulu", for all the audience knows, is not even her real name (when Schigolch first addresses her as "Lulu", she admits that she [[DarkAndTroubledPast hasn't been called that name in a long time]]). The artist is so shaken by the revelation that he commits suicide. Lulu then compels Dr. Schön to marry her, but things begin to unravel from there. Lulu has many admirers who want to bed her, [[IncestIsRelative including Dr. Schön's son Alwa]], but [[LustObject it's never known what Lulu herself wants]]. It ends with Lulu reduced to [[DisposableSexWorker poverty in London]] and killed by [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Jack the Ripper]] ([[IronicEcho who is played by the same actor as Dr. Schön]]), along with one of her admirers, Countess Geschwitz, who is the [[IncompatibleOrientation only one who actually seems to care about Lulu herself]]. The whole drama is a scathing satire about the [[HumansAreBastards moral hypocrisy]] of high society and about how the men who want Lulu, secure in their place in patriarchy, see in her what they want to see while her own needs are never made clear.

* Alban Berg's ''[[Theatre/{{Lulu}} Lulu]]'', like its source material by [[FrankWedekind Frank Wedekind]], is a deeply disturbing tale revolving around Lulu (who is only about ''[[FilleFatale 15 years of age]]'' at the beginning of the show), a seductive but [[MysteriousWoman mysterious former street urchin]] who follows a downward spiral from a well-kept mistress in Vienna to a street prostitute in London, while being both a [[SoBeautifulItsACurse victim]] and a [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior purveyor of destruction]]. Her first husband, the [[SugarDaddy aging Dr. Goll]], is so shocked when he catches her in a compromising setting with the artist painting her portrait that he dies of a heart attack; unmoved, she quickly marries the artist. [[AristocratsAreEvil Dr. Schön]], who apparently [[DirtyOldMan "rescued" her from the gutter]] when she was [[WouldHurtAChild ''12 years old'' while conducting an affair with her ever since]], after she reacts badly to his announcement that he is engaged and must dissociate from her, spills [[MysteriousWaif her backstory]] to the artist, along with her relationship with the equally mysterious beggar Schigolch, who is implied to be [[AbusiveParents her father]] and [[ParentalIncest her first client]]. Lulu has gone by [[IHaveManyNames many aliases]] and "Lulu", for all the audience knows, is not even her real name (when Schigolch first addresses her as "Lulu", she admits that she [[DarkAndTroubledPast hasn't been called that name in a long time]]). The artist is so shaken by the revelation that he commits suicide. Lulu then compels Dr. Schön to marry her, but things begin to unravel from there. Lulu has many admirers who want to bed her, [[IncestIsRelative including Dr. Schön's son Alwa]], but [[LustObject it's never known what Lulu herself wants]]. It ends with Lulu reduced to [[DisposableSexWorker poverty in London]] and killed by [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Jack the Ripper]] ([[IronicEcho who is played by the same actor as Dr. Schön]]), along with one of her admirers, Countess Geschwitz, who is the [[IncompatibleOrientation only one who actually seems to care about Lulu herself]]. The whole drama is a scathing satire about the [[HumansAreBastards moral hypocrisy]] of high society and about how the men who want Lulu, secure in their place in patriarchy, see in her what they want to see while her own needs are never made clear.

* Alban Berg's ''[[Theatre/{{Lulu}} Lulu]]'', like its source material by [[FrankWedekind Frank Wedekind]], is a deeply disturbing tale revolving around Lulu (who is only about ''[[FilleFatale 15 years of age]]'' at the beginning of the show), a seductive but [[MysteriousWoman mysterious former street urchin]] who follows a downward spiral from a well-kept mistress in Vienna to a street prostitute in London, while being both a [[SoBeautifulItsACurse victim]] and a [[DisturbingUnchildlikeBehavior purveyor of destruction]]. Her first husband, the [[SugarDaddy aging Dr. Goll]], is so shocked when he catches her in a compromising setting with the artist painting her portrait that he dies of a heart attack; unmoved, she quickly marries the artist. [[AristocratsAreEvil Dr. Schön]], who apparently [[DirtyOldMan "rescued" her from the gutter]] when she was [[WouldHurtAChild ''12 years old'' while conducting an affair with her ever since]], after she reacts badly to his announcement that he is engaged and must dissociate from her, spills [[MysteriousWaif her backstory]] to the artist, along with her relationship with the equally mysterious beggar Schigolch, who is implied to be [[AbusiveParents her father]] and [[ParentalIncest her first client]]. Lulu has gone by [[IHaveManyNames many aliases]] and "Lulu", for all the audience knows, is not even her real name (when Schigolch first addresses her as "Lulu", she admits that she [[DarkAndTroubledPast hasn't been called that name in a long time]]). The artist is so shaken by the revelation that he commits suicide. Lulu then compels Dr. Schön to marry her, but things begin to unravel from there. Lulu has many admirers who want to bed her, [[IncestIsRelative including Dr. Schön's son Alwa]], but [[LustObject it's never known what Lulu herself wants]]. It ends with Lulu reduced to [[DisposableSexWorker poverty in London]] and killed by [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Jack the Ripper]] ([[IronicEcho who is played by the same actor as Dr. Schön]]), along with one of her admirers, Countess Geschwitz, who is the [[IncompatibleOrientation only one who actually seems to care about Lulu herself]]. The whole drama is a scathing satire about the [[HumansAreBastards moral hypocrisy]] of high society and about how the men who want Lulu, secure in their place in patriarchy, see in her what they want to see while her own needs are never made clear.

* Alban Berg's ''[[Theatre/{{Lulu}} Lulu]]'', like its source material by [[FrankWedekind Frank Wedekind]], is a deeply disturbing tale revolving around Lulu (who is only about ''[[FilleFatale 15 years of age]]'' at the beginning of the show), a seductive but [[MysteriousWoman mysterious former street urchin]] who follows a downward spiral from a well-kept mistress in Vienna to a street prostitute in London, while being both a [[SoBeautifulIt'sACurse victim]] and a [[DisturbingUnchildlikeBehavior purveyor of destruction]]. Her first husband, the [[SugarDaddy aging Dr. Goll]], is so shocked when he catches her in a compromising setting with the artist painting her portrait that he dies of a heart attack; unmoved, she quickly marries the artist. [[AristocratsAreEvil Dr. Schön]], who apparently [[DirtyOldMan "rescued" her from the gutter]] when she was [[WouldHurtAChild ''12 years old'' while conducting an affair with her ever since]], after she reacts badly to his announcement that he is engaged and must dissociate from her, spills [[MysteriousWaif her backstory]] to the artist, along with her relationship with the equally mysterious beggar Schigolch, who is implied to be [[AbusiveParents her father]] and [[ParentalIncest her first client]]. Lulu has gone by [[IHaveManyNames many aliases]] and "Lulu", for all the audience knows, is not even her real name (when Schigolch first addresses her as "Lulu", she admits that she [[DarkAndTroubledPast hasn't been called that name in a long time]]). The artist is so shaken by the revelation that he commits suicide. Lulu then compels Dr. Schön to marry her, but things begin to unravel from there. Lulu has many admirers who want to bed her, [[IncestIsRelative including Dr. Schön's son Alwa]], but [[LustObject it's never known what Lulu herself wants]]. It ends with Lulu reduced to [[DisposableSexWorker poverty in London]] and killed by [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Jack the Ripper]] ([[IronicEcho who is played by the same actor as Dr. Schön]]), along with one of her admirers, Countess Geschwitz, who is the [[IncompatibleOrientation only one who actually seems to care about Lulu herself]]. The whole drama is a scathing satire about the [[HumansAreBastards moral hypocrisy]] of high society and about how the men who want Lulu, secure in their place in patriarchy, see in her what they want to see while her own needs are never made clear.

* Alban Berg's ''[[Theatre/{{Lulu}} Lulu]]'', like its source material by [[FrankWedekind Frank Wedekind]], is a deeply disturbing tale revolving around Lulu (who is only about ''[[FilleFatale 15 years of age]]'' at the beginning of the show), a seductive but mysterious former street urchin who follows a downward spiral from a well-kept mistress in Vienna to a street prostitute in London, while being both a victim and a [[FilleFatale purveyor of destruction]]. Her first husband, the [[SugarDaddy aging Dr. Goll]], is so shocked when he catches her in a compromising setting with the artist painting her portrait that he dies of a heart attack; unmoved, she quickly marries the artist. [[AristocratsAreEvil Dr. Schön]], who apparently [[DirtyOldMan "rescued" her from the gutter]] when she was [[WouldHurtAChild ''12 years old'' while conducting an affair with her ever since]], after she reacts badly to his announcement that he is engaged and must dissociate from her, spills her backstory to the artist, along with her relationship with the equally mysterious beggar Schigolch, who is implied to be [[AbusiveParents her father]] and [[ParentalIncest her first client]]. Lulu has gone by many aliases and "Lulu", for all the audience knows, is not even her real name (when Schigolch first addresses her as "Lulu", she admits that she hasn't been called that name in a long time). The artist is so shaken by the revelation that he commits suicide. Lulu then compels Dr. Schön to marry her, but things begin to unravel from there. Lulu has many admirers who want to bed her, [[IncestIsRelative including Dr. Schön's son Alwa]], but [[ShroudedInMyth it's never known what Lulu herself wants]]. It ends with Lulu reduced to [[DisposableSexWorker poverty in London]] and killed by [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Jack the Ripper]] ([[IronicEcho who is played by the same actor as Dr. Schön]]), along with one of her admirers, Countess Geschwitz, who is the [[IncompatibleOrientation only one who actually seems to care about Lulu herself]]. The whole drama is a scathing satire about the [[HumansAreBastards moral hypocrisy]] of high society.

* Alban Berg's ''[[Theatre/{{Lulu}} Lulu]]'', like its source material by [[FrankWedekind Frank Wedekind]], is a deeply disturbing tale revolving around Lulu (who is only about ''[[FilleFatale 15 years of age]]'' at the beginning of the show), a seductive but mysterious former street urchin who follows a downward spiral from a well-kept mistress in Vienna to a street prostitute in London, while being both a victim and a [[FilleFatale purveyor of destruction]]. Her first husband, the [[SugarDaddy aging Dr. Goll]], is so shocked when he catches her in a compromising setting with the artist painting her portrait that he dies of a heart attack; unmoved, she quickly marries the artist. [[AristocratsAreEvil Dr. Schön]], who apparently [[DirtyOldMan "rescued" her from the gutter]] when she was [[WouldHurtAChild ''12 years old'' while conducting an affair with her ever since]], after she reacts badly to his announcement that he is engaged and must dissociate from her, spills her backstory to the artist, along with her relationship with the equally mysterious beggar Schigolch, who is implied to be [[AbusiveParents her father]] and [[ParentalIncest her first client]]. Lulu has gone by many aliases and "Lulu", for all the audience knows, is not even her real name. The artist is so shaken by the revelation that he commits suicide. Lulu then compels Dr. Schön to marry her, but things begin to unravel from there. Lulu has many admirers who want to bed her, [[IncestIsRelative including Dr. Schön's son Alwa]], but [[ShroudedInMyth it's never known what Lulu herself wants]]. It ends with Lulu reduced to [[DisposableSexWorker poverty in London]] and killed by [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Jack the Ripper]] ([[IronicEcho who is played by the same actor as Dr. Schön]]), along with one of her admirers, Countess Geschwitz, who is the [[IncompatibleOrientation only one who actually seems to care about Lulu herself]]. The whole drama is a scathing satire about the [[HumansAreBastards moral hypocrisy]] of high society.

* Alban Berg's ''[[Theatre/{{Lulu}} Lulu]]'', like its source material by [[FrankWedekind Frank Wedekind]], is a deeply disturbing tale revolving around Lulu (who is only about ''[[FilleFatale 15 years of age]]'' at the beginning of the show), a seductive but mysterious former street urchin who follows a downward spiral from a well-kept mistress in Vienna to a street prostitute in London, while being both a victim and a [[FilleFatale purveyor of destruction]]. Her first husband, the [[SugarDaddy aging Dr. Goll]], is so shocked when he catches her in a compromising setting with the artist painting her portrait that he dies of a heart attack; unmoved, she quickly marries the artist. [[AristocratsAreEvil Dr. Schön]], who apparently [[DirtyOldMan "rescued" her from the gutter]] when she was [[WouldHurtAChild ''12 years old'' while conducting an affair with her ever since]], after she reacts badly to his announcement that he is engaged and must dissociate from her, spills her backstory to the artist, along with her relationship with the equally mysterious beggar Schigolch, who is implied to be [[AbusiveParents her father]] and [[ParentalIncest her first client]]. Lulu has gone by many aliases and "Lulu", for all the audience knows, is not even her real name. The artist is so shaken by the revelation that he commits suicide. Lulu then compels Dr. Schön to marry her, but things begin to unravel from there. Lulu has many admirers who want to bed her, [[IncestIsRelative including Dr. Schön's son Alwa]], but [[ShroudedInMyth it's never known what Lulu herself wants]]. It ends with Lulu reduced to [[DisposableSexWorker poverty in London]] and killed by [[Jack the Ripper]] ([[IronicEcho who is played by the same actor as Dr. Schön]]), along with one of her admirers, Countess Geschwitz, who is the [[IncompatibleOrientation only one who actually seems to care about Lulu herself]].

* Alban Berg's ''[[Theatre/{{Lulu}} Lulu]]'', like its source material by [[FrankWedekind Frank Wedekind]], is a deeply disturbing tale revolving around Lulu (who is only about ''[[FilleFatale 15 years of age]]'' at the beginning of the show), a seductive but mysterious former street urchin who follows a downward spiral from a well-kept mistress in Vienna to a street prostitute in London, while being both a victim and a [[FilleFatale purveyor of destruction]]. Her first husband, the [[SugarDaddy aging Dr. Goll]], is so shocked when he catches her in a compromising setting with the artist painting her portrait that he dies of a heart attack; unmoved, she quickly marries the artist. [[AristocratsAreEvil Dr. Schön]], who apparently [[DirtyOldMan "rescued" her from the gutter]] when she was [[WouldHurtAChild ''12 years old'' while conducting an affair with her ever since]], after she reacts badly to his announcement that he is engaged and must dissociate from her, spills her backstory to the artist, along with her relationship with the equally mysterious beggar Schigolch, who is implied to be [[AbusiveParents her father]] and [[ParentalIncest her first client]]. Lulu has gone by many aliases and "Lulu", for all the audience knows, is not even her real name. The artist is so shaken by the revelation that he commits suicide. Lulu then compels Dr. Schön to marry her, but things begin to unravel from there. Lulu has many admirers who want to bed her, [[IncestIsRelative including Dr. Schön's son Alwa]], but [[ShroudedInMyth it's never known what Lulu herself wants]]. It ends with Lulu reduced to [[DisposableSexWorker poverty in London]] and killed by [[Jack the Ripper]] (who is played by the same actor as Dr. Schön), along with one of her admirers, Countess Geschwitz, who is the [[IncompatibleOrientation only one who actually seems to care about Lulu herself]].

* Alban Berg's ''[[Theatre/{{Lulu}} Lulu]]'', like its source material by [[FrankWedekind Frank Wedekind]], is a deeply disturbing tale revolving around Lulu (who is only about ''[[ShockinglyYoung 15 years of age]]'' at the beginning of the show), a seductive but mysterious former street urchin who follows a downward spiral from a well-kept mistress in Vienna to a street prostitute in London, while being both a victim and a [[FemmeFatale purveyor of destruction]]. Her first husband, the [[SugarDaddy aging Dr. Goll]], is so shocked when he catches her in a compromising setting with the artist painting her portrait that he dies of a heart attack; unmoved, she quickly marries the artist. Dr. Schön, who apparently [[HumanTrafficking "rescued" her from the gutter when she was ''12 years old'' while conducting an affair with her ever since]], after she reacts badly to his announcement that he is engaged and must dissociate from her, spills her backstory to the artist, along with her relationship with the equally mysterious beggar Schigolch, who is implied to be [[Incest her father and her first client]]. Lulu has gone by many aliases and "Lulu", for all the audience knows, is not even her real name. The artist is so shaken by the revelation that he commits suicide. Lulu then compels Dr. Schön to marry her, but things begin to unravel from there. It ends with Lulu reduced to poverty in London and killed by Jack the Ripper (who is played by the same actor as Dr. Schön), along with one of her admirers, Countess Geschwitz, who is the [[IncompatableOrientation only one who actually seems to care about Lulu herself]].

* Alban Berg's ''[[Theatre/{{Lulu}} Lulu]]'', like its source material by [[FrankWedekind Frank Wedekind]], is a deeply disturbing tale revolving around Lulu (who is only about ''15 years of age'' at the beginning of the show), a seductive but mysterious former street urchin who follows a downward spiral from a well-kept mistress in Vienna to a street prostitute in London, while being both a victim and a purveyor of destruction. Her first husband, the aging Dr. Goll, is so shocked when he catches her in a compromising setting with the artist painting her portrait that he dies of a heart attack; unmoved, she quickly marries the artist. Dr. Schön, who apparently "rescued" her from the gutter when she was ''12 years old'' while conducting an affair with her ever since, after she reacts badly to his announcement that he is engaged and must dissociate from her, spills her backstory to the artist, along with her relationship with the equally mysterious beggar Schigolch, who is implied to be her father and her first client. Lulu has gone by many aliases and "Lulu", for all the audience knows, is not even her real name. The artist is so shaken by the revelation that he commits suicide. Lulu then compels Dr. Schön to marry her, but things begin to unravel from there. It ends with Lulu reduced to poverty in London and killed by Jack the Ripper, along with one of her admirers, Countess Geschwitz, who is the only one who actually seems to care about Lulu herself.

* The entirety of Bartók's ''Bluebeard's Castle'' is filled to the brim with pure nightmare fuel, considering its source material. The opera's set in a dark and creepy castle with seven locked doors, and there's already a rather cold feel in the relationship between Bluebeard and his new wife Judith. Let's not forget about the dead ex-wives. The score itself is incredibly terrifying.

* In David Bösch's production of ''Theatre/LOrfeo'', the flowers jutting out of the stage raise to the ceiling for the Underworld acts and their roots are revealed to have human heads at the bottom. The spirit dancers all look like Eurydice except with a SkullForAHead, and the MoodDissonance of the happy music and chorus playing over the altered ending, where Orpheus cuts his wrists and joins Eurydice in a shared grave, makes for unnerving viewing.

* Peter Maxwell Davies' ''[[https://youtu.be/m6357vL9TPg Eight Songs for a Mad King]]'' is a depiction of King George III in his last years when he had succumbed to dementia. The whole opera is set to hair-raising atonal music and features extended singing techniques [[UncannyValley that makes the baritone sound inhuman]]. The most shocking moment occurs in the seventh scene, when King George ''grabs the violinist's violin and smashes it into pieces''.

* Richard Strauss' ''Salome'' is incredibly messed up, in addition to being scary. There's Princess Salome, who's willing to strip for her ''stepfather'' before demanding the head of Jochanaan. If that weren't enough, at the end, Salome actually ''kisses Jochanaan's severed head and declares her love for it in front of everyone''. It horrifies Herod enough to order her to be executed. His soldiers do so by crushing her to death between their shields. The final music morbidly suggests her dead body twitching.

* In David Bösch's production of ''Theatre/LOrfeo'', the flowers jutting out of the stage raise to the ceiling for the Underworld acts and their roots are revealed to have human heads at the bottom. The spirit dancers all look like Eurydice except with a SkullForAHead, and the MoodDissonance of the happy music and chorus playing over the altered ending, where Orpheus cuts his wrists and joins Eurydice in a shared grave, makes for unnerving viewing.

!! From the Creator/DarioArgento film:
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[[caption-width-right:350: Being [[BoundAndGagged tied up]] isn't fun now, is it?]]
* The scene where Mira and Betty are being stalked by the killer in Betty's apartment is extremely creepy, well-shot, and tense.
* Betty having needles placed under her eyelids and taped there so that she will be forced to watch the slaying of her lover.
* A raven [[EyeScream gouges out and devours the killer's eye]].

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[[caption-width-right:350: Pictured above: Amelita Galli-Curci as Lucia di Lammermoor, 1920's]]

** Lucia's mad scene from Donizetti's ''Lucia di Lammermoor'' is both NightmareFuel and TearJerker. Already, Lucia is a fragile character, her mother has just died, but her mental state rapidly deteriorates when she's tricked out of her engagement to her friend Edgardo, and forced to marry her brother's ally Arturo. Lucia's offstage murder of Arturo sets the tone for the incoming aria "Il dolce suono" ("The sweet dream") before she comes into the scene, dressed in her bloody wedding dress and completely unaware of her crime, singing about marrying Edgardo. The way she acts as if he's there and singing to him is both chilling and heartbreaking. Even worse, Lucia ''dies'' from her madness, which really emphasizes how frail of a woman she really was.

* Richard Strauss' ''Salome'' is incredibly messed up, in addition to being scary. There's Princess Salome, who's willing to strip for her ''stepfather'' before demanding the head of Jochanaan. If that weren't enough, at the end, Salome actually ''kisses Jochanaan's severed head and declares her love for it in front of everyone''. It horrifies Herod enough to order her to be executed.

* Peter Maxwell Davies' ''[[https://youtu.be/m6357vL9TPg Eight Songs for a Mad King]]'' is a depiction of King George III in his last years when he had succumbed to dementia. The whole opera is set to hair-raising atonal music and features extended singing techniques [[UncannyValley that makes the baritone sound inhuman]]. The most shocking moment occurs in the seventh scene, when King George ''[[spoiler:grab's the violinist's violin and smashes it into pieces]]''.

* A raven [[EyeScream gouges out and devours the killer's eye]]

** Lucia's mad scene from Donizetti's ''Lucia di Lammermoor'' is both NightmareFuel and TearJerker. Already, Lucia is a fragile character, but her mental state rapidly deteriorates when her brother Enrico threatens to haunt her if she doesn't marry his ally Arturo. Lucia's offstage murder of Arturo sets the tone for the incoming aria "Il dolce suono" before she comes into the scene, dressed in her bloody wedding dress and completely unaware of her crime, singing about marrying Edgardo. The way she acts as if he's there and singing to him is both chilling and heartbreaking. Even worse, Lucia ''dies'' from her madness, which really emphasizes how frail of a woman she really was.
*** Lucia's Act I aria "Regnava nel silenzio" is equally chilling, both in melody and in lyrics. Lucia basically recalls how she saw the ghost of a woman killed at the fountain the scene is set by one of Edgardo's ancestors. Alisa, Lucia's maid, tries telling her that the ghost was a warning, and that her romance with Edgardo would only end in tragedy.

* Arnold Schoenberg's opera ''Erwartung'' is the operatic equivalent of a psychological horror movie. The only role is an unnamed woman, sung by a soprano, who is searching for her lover in the woods at night. Upon coming across a tree trunk that she thinks is her lover, she unleashes a tirade of fears and emotions. But when she comes across the actual body of her lover, she tries reviving him and even accusing him of being unfaithful to her. It's honestly terrifying. The whole opera is set to music that's scary in its own right.

* The finale of Verdi's ''Theatre/{{Aida|Verdi}}''. Radamès is sentenced to be buried alive for betraying Egypt, and he's just been sealed in the vault of the temple when he sees Aida in the tomb with him. The music when the priests and priestesses sing above their prayer to Ptah, the creator god, is absolutely chilling, and the desperation in Radamès voice when he tries to free them both is equally ominous. At this point, both Radamès and Aida have accepted their fate, which is [[AFateWorseThanDeath very much worse than death]], and just sing their farewell to the world -- a few lines over and over -- as they prepare to pass into the next world. On the last repetition, Princess Amneris comes into the temple and throws herself on the crypt, repeating in heartbroken tones a prayer to Isis to end their suffering and welcome them to heaven in peace. The resignation of the melody is both haunting and [[TearJerker saddening]]. Amneris' "Pace, pace, pace" and the clergy's very soft "Immenso Ptah!" is the last thing we hear.

* There is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBRzlaSOYiw an opera]] based on ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'' with very disturbing imagery. It ends with Lolita in a BloodSplatteredWeddingDress. This particular video ends with some NightmareRetardant and a [[HeartwarmingMoments Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming]] by having the bloodstained Lolita (rather, the actress playing her) dragging the author out on stage during the curtain call.

* There is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBRzlaSOYiw an opera]] based on ''Literature/{{Lolita}}'' with very disturbing imagery. It ends with Lolita in a BloodSplatteredWeddingDress. This particular video ends with some NightmireRetardant and a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming by having the bloodstained Lolita (rather, the actress playing her) dragging the author out on stage during the curtain call.

* Can you believe they made [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8kOARObQd4 an opera]] out of Literature/TheShining?

* The finale of Verdi's ''Theatre/{{Aida|Verdi}}''. Radamès is sentenced to be buried alive for betraying Egypt, and he's just been entombed when he sees Aida in the tomb with him. The music when the priests and priestesses sing above is absolutely chilling, and the desperation in Radamès voice when he tries to free them both is equally ominous. At this point, both Radamès and Aida have accepted their fate, which is [[AFateWorseThanDeath very much worse than death]], and just sing their farewell to the world as they prepare to pass into the next world. The resignation of the melody is both haunting and [[TearJerker saddening]].

[[caption-width-right:350:Pictured above, Amelita Galli-Curci as Lucia di Lammermoor, 1920's]]